astrogate

present singular third person astrogates · participle present astrogating · participle past astrogated · past astrogated

1. ambitransitiveliteratureTo astronavigate; to control and guide a spacecraft.

   Sure, Mike was used to having many loads in trajectory at once—but had never had to astrogate more than one at a time. Now he had hundreds and had promised to deliver twenty-nine of them simultaneously to the exact second at twenty-nine pinpointed targets.

   1966, Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, New York: Ace, published 2018, Book 3, Chapter 25